Only half story, if that. What about the amount of steel being used in the US "for decades"? Has that stayed the same? Using the same amount now as in 1970?
Stats they never give us:
1. Total of a product being consumed in the US now and in past decades.
2. Percent of the total consumed produced in the US and imported from other nations now and in past decades.
Lies, damned lies and statistics.
You don't seem to know because you're not saying. No prob, there are lots of things I don't know and my bet is that there are plenty of things you don't know besides historic U.S. steel consumption. What we do know is that all this talk about how the U.S. doesn't make any more steel is a crock. Reality is that we make more steel now than we did when Reagan was president.
We can learn something new every day.